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My Memories Of Broadstone
My earliest memories of Broadstone stem from about 1937 when I was five years old. We lived in Southbourne at the time and frequently went to Broadstone at weekends to visit my "aunt Flo" and her family who lived at ...Read more
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Family Recollection.
My grandmother Elizabeth Keeler was born at Knights Bottom Ringwould in May 1899. Her father George Keeler was a diver working on building the extension to the Admiralty Pier in Dover. He was killed in 1906 when he was ...Read more
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My Grandmother Had A Boarding House
My grandmother had a boarding house on Grand Parade on Hayling Island through the fifties into the sixties. Our summer holidays every year were to visit her in Hayling Island with all our extended large ...Read more
A memory of Hayling Island
The Harbour Line.
Look carefully between the first two trees on the left of the photograph. In the gap with the house in the background you will see a horizontal dark line which follows to the right. This is the railway line called the Harbour Line ...Read more
A memory of Wisbech
Southlands School, Harrow On The Hill
While sorting through some old photographs from the 1950s when I was in England and Europe with two girlfriends from Western Australia, some of the Southlands school were among them. So we did an ...Read more
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Tea Times At Beadnell
My name is Sean Sweet. I have many memories of Beadnell. My Grandparents owned a cottage near the harbour called Sandy Dell and later my parents had a static caravan on the links. Every summer seemed to be hot and sunny and ...Read more
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Dysart In The 60s
I was brought up in Dysart, first in Howard Place then the High Street, where my mum and dad still live. I remember all the shops that were there in the 1960s when I was a little girl, the little wool shop where you could buy odd ...Read more
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Bombing Raids In 1940
Bristol's premier shopping centre was turned into a wasteland of burned out buildings after major bombing raids in 1940, during the Second World War. Bridge Street Summary Bridge Street ran from High Street, rising up a ...Read more
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Events On The Hill
I have left the year of these incidents because they were on going throughout my childhood. The first concerns Dr Clinch's dog. Dr Clinch lived at the top of Penygarn Hill. He was a large man with a gruff exterior, I believe he ...Read more
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The Day We Topped Out £12m New Leisure Centre In Wednesfield!
£12m Wednesfield Leisure Pool. It has been a very big week for both myself and Mary, we have attended 11 individual events as well as trying to hold the day jobs down! On Monday ...Read more
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Ornate arbours and a Moorish-style pavilion provided seats sheltered from the wind and a floral hall hosted shows and concerts.
The thatched arbour has recently been restored.
They wear late 15th-century armour and strike the two bells on the quarter hour.
Bovington is the home of the popular tank museum, where a great many tanks and armoured military vehicles can be seen.
Bovington Camp dates back to the First World War, and is the home of the Royal Armoured Corps. The surrounding heathland is heavily used for tank training.
In full armour, knights rode down the lists, trying to unhorse one another with lances. The castle is now a ruin.
This statue by Brock is of Edward of Woodstock, better known as the Black Prince on account of his black armour.
This statue by Brock is of Edward of Woodstock, better known as the Black Prince on account of his black armour.
A 25-pounder gun and a Saladin armoured car are preserved on the site.
The alabaster effigies of the armour-clad John Beaufort, 1st Duke of Somerset, and his wife Margaret lie recumbent on their elaborate 15th-century tomb in the presbytery.
'Gentlemen are our best customers. Ladies have sometimes said: "A penny, my poor girls, here's three-halfpence for the bunch". Or they have given me the price of two bunches for one'.
During the Second World War, there was an encampment of the Black Watch Regiment here: they kept their armoured vehicles on the green, and had their canteen in the village hall.
Eglinton was the scene of the famous tournament of 1839, when knights in armour once again showed their skill at arms. The castle was gutted in c1930.
It fired a heavy, hard-hitting bolt that could penetrate armour at ranges up to 250 yds.
HMS 'Belleisle' was a coast defence central battery armoured ship.
When built they were rated as first-class cruisers; however, they were under-gunned, mounting only 8 x 4-inch, 8 x 3-pdrs and 2 x 14-inch torpedo tubes, and their deck armour was only two inches thick
Classical statues are placed at each end of the building, and stone knights in armour stand in protective pose near the main entrance.
Another effigy portrays a knight who probably fought in the Wars of the Roses, for the links of the chain attached to his armour are joined by the roses of York.
Somewhere along this steeply-sloping, shingle beach the armoured legionaries from Julius Caesar's invading army waded ashore in 55BC.
Somewhere along this steeply-sloping, shingle beach the armoured legionaries from Julius Caesar's invading army waded ashore in 55BC.
Another recreation ground available to Rugbeians was the Whitehall Recreation Ground on Hillmorton Road, which housed a 28-ton, armoured First World War tank presented to the town in 1919,
Later, the Belgian Brigade's armoured car division were also billeted at Coney Beach until the unit left Porthcawl in 1942.
The Majestics carried over 4000 tons of armour plate, varying in thickness from 4 inches on the deck slopes to 14 inches on the conning tower and barbettes.
A flotilla of assorted sailing vessels speed on the ebb tide towards the light house marking the harbour entrance, whilst a lone sculler (to the lower left) makes ponderous progress as he battles with
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